Is this rain or are they my tears?

The weather in Guatemala is extremely weird, but I can get accustomed, except some days that are continually raining. For me, the rain represents weakness, sadness and boredom. I hate when it is raining because I love to go outside and play some sports in a field, and do not like being wet. Rain is one of my weaknesses; it takes all my energy, making me sleepy and lowers my mood. Everything has its pros and cons, while rain has more cons than pros, it does have its pros.

It makes me think about life, it makes me want to know how good my future life can be. Sometimes, the rain is interesting because you can see a lot of water falling from the sky. Actually, Guatemala is a territory that has a lot of tropical storm and sometimes hurricanes. For me, it is surprising to see a lot of water in the streets and rivers, and I like to see big the rivers.

In my house, the rain is noisy when we have the windows opened, but I am comfortable to noise because I turn on my guitar and start playing with too much sound, because it is the only time that I can play with high volume in my amp. While it is raining, I am starting to be sad, so that is why I play guitar to express my feelings that are inside my body. The rain help me to stay calm in the times I have stress, when I am angry, it can depress me and ignore the stress that was inside me.

I am one of those people who have bad luck, every time I say “today there will be no rain” and one hour later, starts raining and that can make me angry because when I say those words, it’s always in the school and in the last period, it starts raining.

Last year, there were like eleven tropical storms and like two hurricanes. In June of 2011, Guatemala suffered a big hurricane called “Agatha”, which was destructive hurricane and caused flood in big areas in Guatemala. The truth is that sometimes I feel fear when it rains a lot, because the rain produces landslides on mountains that can pull down all the earth and that can affect our streets. These storms or hurricanes can take lives by growing the rivers and drown people that are close to it.

The only moment that I like when is raining is when I am ready to sleep, in the night. That can bring me ideas for the next day; the sound can give me peace, and in this moment, my weakness becomes my strength, because sometimes when is not raining, it’s hard to sleep. Other important thing that I like when it’s starting to rain is that before the rain, there is a big wave of heat. I do not like too much heat, but when it is starting to rain, I feel the wind with water and actually, that feels so good. The rain can refresh you but you need to be careful because you can get sick. Being sick by the rain is very stressful for me because there is too much sound of the water, the wind is cold and you feel that your body can not support the rain, but there are good characteristics of the rain for me,  gives me a great peace to have my ideas in freedom.

Most of the time, I like to see the weather prognostic because that can give me a chance if the day will be cool or if the day will suck. Some days can be bored but I learn that only you can control your emotions looking at the rain, using the imagination and your vision. Some people can relax with the rain, but the rain can be felt with any of your sense, by the eyes (to see the incredible fall of the sea) nose (to smell the fresh water), ears (to listen the beautiful sound of the drops), and finally the taste, to touch the rain like if the rain are your tears.             

An important person

An importante person

Do you know who the person that you admire is? Well, I would talk about Elizabeth Caravantes.

Elizabeth Caravantes (was born in January 13, 1995) is a nice girl that is in my class, the girl that is front in the class and the girl that has a great mind. She has great skills and opened ideas, and I love her smile, is so cute. She is in my class, we have funny times together and she is helping me in a relationship with another beautiful girl.

I met Elizabeth in first grade, but unfortunately we didn’t talk, only to say hello and goodbye. We were just classmates and in second grade, we were separated. The great meeting was in third grade, she invited me to her fifteen’s party and was awesome. We were in the same class again, only that we were together all the year and talk about any conversation we start. She is an amazing girl, and we had funny time in third grade, we gave us cheat in quizzes, and was incredible staying in her side. In this grade, I was a great friend of Elizabeth.

The great moments started in fourth grade. Elizabeth gave me a hug the first day of school because I went to Missouri and I missed her a lot. That day was her birthday too and also I gave another hug to her day, and I saw her sweeter, maybe was my eyes but she was beatier. At the beginning of the year, I had great moments with her and I started to feel curious about her. I considered that she was starting to be my best friend. But later, that feeling was starting to be more curious. I do not know if she had known that I liked her, and that was something bad because I was not the same person with her, but that was truth, I really liked her. I felt fear, and I was uncomfortable, I did not understand why, but was hard for me to talk again with her. I tried to consider that she needed to be my best friend again.

Unfortunately, for a moment, I tried to ignore her, and was a big mistake because my friends, some guys, knew about who I liked. They said that I needed to try with her, but I was more interest in a friendship than a relationship. In some moments, I was so confused because she went to school very pretty and the truth was that I was really crazy for her. I feel stupid because I did not tried something with her, but thanks god that now she is my friend.

Now, about her characteristics: Elizabeth is, for me, the most beautiful girl in my class, and I am proud because I talk with her about my or her secrets, some rumors and advices for both. I can understand that she is a great girl, so cute and funny at the same time because she can make laugh to a guy. Something about her that I still admire is her humor, is so funny and original. It would be hard or maybe impossible to find another girl like Elizabeth, because she is now in my heart.

In this last month, I felt again curious to talk to her a lot, only that she is in front of the class and I am at the back. At least, we are starting to go out with other friends. Something special about Elizabeth is that I never saw her sad, she always is a happy person, and she has always her smile in those moments you need it. The only thing that I hate is that she love Justin Bieber, but I do not matter because she loves Justin’s voice or maybe his body, I do not know.

I think that some people needs to realize who are their friends, but I already found my best friend forever, and her beautiful name is Elizabeth Caravantes.

PD: I hope she read this special essay.

My childhood ;)

Do you remember your childhood? Do you remember about your life? Well, I will talk about my childhood.

My name is Juan Esteban Wyss, and this is my story:

With my mom, we tried to remember the funniest moments when I was a little kid, some moments that were sad and about those moments that I suffered with my bad luck.

Since I remember about my childhood, the first thing that I remember is when I was in Disney, Orlando, Florida. Unfortunately, was my third time in Disney and I can not remember very well because I had 4 years old, but I can remember that I got lost about thirty minutes and my mom found me. That was very wear because I thought that everyone talks Spanish, and I was saying “where is my mom”. That moment was so wear, and thanks god that I can not remember very well because it will be very fear for me.

The funniest moments:

In Orlando, I did not remember this funny moment. I was in a show of twister, the tornado, and my dad put me on the handrail. When the lightning hit the tree, the handrail just moved with a little tremor and I hit the floor with my head. My mom said that the fall is the guilty about my brain, which I am not so smart and really is very funny because she always get laugh about that moment.

Other funny moment is when I broke my nose. Unfortunately, I broke my nose two times, and both moments were funny and painful. The first time, was in my farm, and it was a party with a container hung and was the turn of my cousin to hit it. I was making noise to distract him, but I received a hit with a stick in my nose. That moment was only pain and I supposed that it will does not matter. One year later, when a was six years old, I was playing with other cousin and I can not remember who threw a orange, but was almost the same place, in my farm, and that freaking orange hit me directly in my nose. For that moment, I was sure that my nose was completely broken. Now, is funny to remember these events in my farm and the great thing is that I can not remember the pain, because was almost 11 years ago.  

Trips to the beach:

Some trips were so happy, and my dad has a video when my family and I very playing at the beach. I was in my mom’s arms and she put me on the sand, and later, a big wave took me. Looking at the video is very funny because I was rolling in the wave and I ended like ten meters away from my mom. Actually, I think that this moment was when my bad luck attached me, and in some other stories I can saw my bad luck making my life uncomfortable, but I can resist the bad luck and I can see it like a happy time.

Happy times:

I can realize that I have the best family, because I saw some videotapes and there are great moments that they took care of me, they taught me, educated me and specially, they loved and still love me. 

School:

My first time of school, was very wear because I did not imagine that it will be so uncomfortable, or maybe it was the fear to talk with other classmates that I had never seen in my life.

Every day of school, I had a big problem, the restroom. I did not like the restroom because it was so embarrassed to go because the bathroom was in the next door of the class. I can remember that every day, I made pi in recess time and the ladies services changed to me, was embarrassed to because they changed me in front of my classmates. I hope that one of my classmates or my friends never remember that moment because was so hard for myself.

So this is my childhood, maybe is funny, maybe is sad or maybe is happy, but the thing that I can appreciate is that I am alive and I can tell you a story from me WYSS.

PD: My nickname, that is also my last name, appeared in my childhood.